Workshop for the Development of a Framework for Environmental Health Science Language

September 15-16, 2014

Purpose

Workshop participants from a broad spectrum of disciplines gathered at North Carolina State University on September 15-16, 2014 to establish a collaborative and cross-disciplinary group to inform development of environmental health science language standards and applications. Participants defined the most pressing research questions that would be aided by the development, extension, or adoption of environmental health semantic standards, and identified data areas of critical relevance.

Discuss lessons learned from similar community standards efforts. This session will focus on examples of projects at different states of maturity, developmental approaches, and strategies for community buy-in.

Group 1: Sherri de Coronado
Breakout Group 1: What language standards are currently used effectively in or have relevance to environmental health science research? What lessons can we learn from these?

Group 2: Gary Miller
Breakout Group 2: What approaches can advance adoption of language standards by the environmental research community?

Group 3: Sharlini Sankaran
Breakout Group 3: What resources are needed to develop or apply environmental health language standards? What analysis capabilities will be enabled by the development and application of language standards for environmental health data?

Group 4: Deirdre Dunn
Breakout Group 4: How can we ensure flexibility and relevancy as new fields of research or types of data emerge?

Group 5: Andy Rooney
Breakout Group 5: What other research areas/entities would benefit from environmental health language standards and how can they be engaged?